Open Thread 2017-05
News and views ...
Posted by b on February 3, 2017 at 19:28 UTC | Permalink
« previous page"Elaine Chao, confirmed this week as Trump’s transportation secretary, received $50,000 in 2015 for a five-minute speech to the political wing of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, previously called a “cult-like” terrorist group by the State Department. Former New York mayor Rudy Guiliani also was paid an unknown sum to talk to the group, known as the MEK.
More than two dozen former US officials, both Republican and Democratic, have spoken before the MEK, including former House Speaker and Trump adviser Newt Gingrich. Some have publicly acknowledged being paid, but others have not."
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"Already, a group of former US officials, including Giuliani, wrote a letter to Trump last month encouraging him to “establish a dialogue” with the MEK’s political arm. "
http://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-cabinet-pick-paid-by-terrorist-iranian-exile-group/
MEK was blowing people up in the streets of Tehran for Israel amongst other hobbies.
Posted by: BraveNewWorld | Feb 5 2017 20:27 utc | 102
- Very curious statement from the White House:
"US: Israeli settlements no impediment to peace but may not be helpful".
Posted by: Willy2 | Feb 5 2017 22:48 utc | 103
- Trump/the US is dialing back sanctions on Russia ???
"Donald Trump loosens sanctions preventing Russia intelligence agencies from cyberspying".
Posted by: Willy2 | Feb 5 2017 22:51 utc | 104
Blogger Scott Adams of Dilbert fame gives a sane take on recent west coast events:
"... Speaking of Hitler, I’m ending my support of UC Berkeley, where I got my MBA years ago. I have been a big supporter lately, with both my time and money, but that ends today. I wish them well, but I wouldn’t feel safe or welcome on the campus. A Berkeley professor made that clear to me recently. He seems smart, so I’ll take his word for it. ..."
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156778990841/berkeley-and-hitler
@ Jackrabbit 99
Yes. Every time I scroll past it's posts I hear the cries in the key of Samantha Power.
Posted by: MadMax2 | Feb 5 2017 23:59 utc | 105
Andrew Korybko on modi's “demonetization” program,
'Herein lies the true reason why Modi is pushing through “demonetization”, and it’s not just because of his government’s desire to extract more tax revenue from its citizenry. What they really want to do is cripple small businesses and compel Indians to open up bank accounts in anticipation of the large-scale rollout of his “Make In India” initiative. This proposal is straightforward enough – it seeks to have India’s foreign partners build their products in India in exchange for having preferential access to its more than one-billion-customer marketplace. The catch, however, is that the vast majority of foreign companies don’t pay their local laborers in cash and demand that they have bank accounts so that their earnings can be directly deposited and thus more easily accountable, especially in the event of an audit. Moreover, foreign manufacturers might have difficulty tapping into the Indian marketplace if domestic brands are already predominant in certain low-scale sectors.
These two pressing motivations explain why Modi went forward with the disastrous “demonetization” policy. It wasn’t to fight “black money” and laughably deal a “surgical strike” to militant financiers, but was predicated all along with the intent of destroying small businesses and forcing as many Indians as possible to open up bank accounts in anticipation of their future hiring by the foreign companies which will participate in “Make In India”.
http://katehon.com/article/cash-crisis-what-make-india-supposed-look
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2017 2:01 utc | 106
According to the likes of nyt/warsj,
india is the world's 'largest democracy',
murkka is the world's 'oldest democracy'
its a match made in heaven !
hhhhhh
back to earth babe,
If You Want to Punch a Real Fascist, Go to India
http://www.unz.com/plee/if-you-want-to-punch-a-real-fascist-go-to-india/
[if you want to save time, skip the indian rants just read the article and comment 41/42]
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2017 3:18 utc | 107
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if you *really* want to save time,
just read comment 41/42.
peter lee's piece is looong !
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2017 3:34 utc | 108
I've a feeling dahoit has finally seen thru the GWHOAX.
Thats good, i knew him back in the days when ICH's was using haloscan !
GWH's mantra must be the most transparent empire manifesto ever !
that idea of 'strategic rival' was authored by none other than.....
Paul Wolfowitz
'America’s political and military mission in the post-cold-war era will be to ensure that no rival superpower is allowed to emerge in Western Europe, Asia or the territories of the former Soviet Union,” and that, “The classified document makes the case for a world dominated by one superpower whose position can be perpetuated by constructive [sic] behavior and sufficient military might to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging American primacy.'
'Further, “the new draft sketches a world in which there is one dominant military power whose leaders ‘must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role’.” Among the necessary challenges to American supremacy, the document “postulated regional wars against Iraq and North Korea,” and identified China and Russia as its major threats.'
that has been the murkkan doctrine ever since.
trump doesnt even bother to hide it.
and yet.......
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2017 4:43 utc | 109
@denk (#109): But all those military adventures have to paid for somehow. And that's the Achilles heel of the US today.
Posted by: Willy2 | Feb 6 2017 12:41 utc | 110
willy2 110
James *General dynamics* Mattis just went to SK and Jp.
Both satraps [1] promise to contribute more to upkeep the GI's 'life style.'
Damnit, the boys wont be coming home as promised by GWH. !
Trump has no problem with the 150 oversea bases, his only complain is that the 'allies' aint paying enough for that 'privilege' !
likewise he wont be scraping nato despite that 'nato is obselete' rant,
the Euros only need to cough up more 'protection monies' thats all !
As general Smedley Butler would say,
'Its a swell racket and we operate over four continents while Al capone could only managed four districts'!
hehehehhe
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abe the poodle really looks the part, doesnt he ?
rubio isnt even the potus, mind you !
hhhhhh
Posted by: denk | Feb 7 2017 3:19 utc | 111
Israel’s legalizing of outposts means stealing private Palestinian land: PLO
let me guess. tee-rump will not be drug over the coals for not saying a word ... nor for having friedman give bib the hi-sign in advance. there are some things one cannot criticize in ac/dc.
Posted by: jfl | Feb 7 2017 6:39 utc | 112
James 'micc' mattis + rex 'big oil' teresson + goldman sach...
this mob screams CONFLICT OF INTEREST !
GWH IS the very 'swamp thing' itself
hhhhh !
scott creighton [willyloman] calls it
'the day exxon takes over state dept' !
hhhhh !
Posted by: denk | Feb 7 2017 7:08 utc | 113
The Exceptionals, which is just Zionism with a coon-skin cap, have just privatized the US Education System, under a Billionaire Exceptional, who will for-profit charter school public education, and loot the huge $T for-profit student loan system.
"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."
Tell me again how 1998 G-L-B wasn't Their Soft Coup, and 911 wasn't their Hard Coup.
"We won, you lost. It's just business, get over it. Now get out of our Edu profit-center!"
Posted by: Even More Outraged Ji | Feb 7 2017 17:54 utc | 115
106 denk
Even more than taxing Indian outsourcing firms, which will just drive call centers to the Philippines, and even more than paving the Yellow Brick Road for Apple et al, who will employ AT MOST 10,000 workers, and NONE OF THEM rural, Modi is looting the huge 24k gold jewelry dowry system with his fiat paper 'gold bonds' )that he'll pay the interest on with skim off the national credit card system, duhh), while he's melting the grifted jewelry down into bullion and trading it to Bank of London Chosen in return for pound sterling, to pay off his national fascist party cronies in Lok Sabha, then buy up 100,000s of prime hectares of development property at fire sale prices. Just follow NYMEX! Oh he's a clever one, Modi is, using the Kiev game plan: loot the gold bullion, trade it to get credit from the Chosen in London and NYC then, buy up everything and flip it to hot capital of every denomination.
The lives of billions of humans in South Asia and across ASEAN are being ground to blood and bone paste, in prime time, under the Chosen's Kiev model, while we sit here on MoA, cigars and brandy, jibberjabbering about the White Helmets and fake news. Wow. Heart of darkness, indeed.
Posted by: Even More Outraged Ji | Feb 8 2017 0:11 utc | 116
@ Even More Outraged Ji | Feb 7, 2017 7:11:21 PM | 116
Some of us see ourselves as the sperm in that Woody Allen movie standing around jibberjabbering.......the heart of darkness to one is the heart of opportunity to another...
Trump is going to follow Modi's lead and sell off America to continue to prop up international private finance as the control/operating model of our society.
Like others have said, Its just business, get use to it Call it fascism or anything else you want but for me it comes back to the log I call private finance and see in it as the cancerous log in the jamb (pun intended) our current "civilization" is in.
And here on MoA it is not jibberjabbering, which has to make noise, that is what we do, not b of course, but what I call textual white noise........YMMV
Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 8 2017 2:04 utc | 117
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Or as Wall Street used to say, before their Fiduciary Duty Clause was lifted, YRMV (Your Results May Vary). Now their tired End of History GST (Greater Sucker Theory) has been given a go-go Maxim for the New 21C: Carpe Aurum et Homunculus Irrumatum!
Posted by: Even More Outraged Ji | Feb 8 2017 4:27 utc | 118
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On the other hand, uncertified charter schools will be very 'helpful' in spreading the Deplorable-Hebrew message of hate, racism and mysogny to the American rabble.
Imagine your oldest son, the one you played football with and taught to ride a dirt bike and fish for walleye pike, being schooled in an Israeli-run charter school while you hump double-shifts as a grave gigger, and now here he's coming to you, age 13, announcing he wants a bar mitzvah to celebrate he's a Milo fanboy, and like all of Trump's children, has decided to convert to the One True Faith.
"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." Lenin
You see? Critical mass, gerrymandering and Hebrew charter schools means Democracy no longer exists in America, only the Tyranny of the Super Minority, and their Fiduciary Duty to Their Own Tribe.
And that starts right ... now....
Posted by: Even More Outraged Ji | Feb 8 2017 4:56 utc | 119
psychohistorian 117
uncle scam has a cancer known as micc,
Dr advise a chemo but the GWH would rather inject it full of steriod.
YOu cant make this stuff up !
'I will rebuild our military, it will be so strong and so great,
.......................
It will be so powerful and so great that we will never have to use it,
nobody's going to mess with us.' [sic]
yet trumpsters lap it up with relish,
hhhhhh !
Posted by: denk | Feb 8 2017 7:29 utc | 120
Even More Outraged Ji 116
Are you into 'conspiracy theory' ?
No sooner than Rajiv ghandi cozy up with Deng xiao ping when he got bumped off , india started hurtling right ever since.
may be just coincidence ?
hhhhh
http://www.countercurrents.org/ind-naqwi271106.htm
Posted by: denk | Feb 8 2017 7:32 utc | 121
chipnik 47
woa, i dunno you'r into 'conspiracy theory', that makes two of us ,
hhhh !
have you heard about the earth quake that demolished haiti and the almost spontaneous murkkan 'invasion' ?
hhhh
p.s.
'coincidence theorists' need not apply,
hhhh
Posted by: denk | Feb 8 2017 7:51 utc | 122
My man Lawrence Davidson tells it like it is, again. as is his wont ...
On 21 April 1938 Franklin Roosevelt delivered a speech to a very conservative organization named the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). He told them to
“remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
FDR’s message confused and irritated his audience.
... fdr was interested in saving his class' interests after they had predictably f**ked up again. big time. following their greedy red noses over the cliff.
tee-rump seemed to some to have similarly positioned himself ... and while i suppose it is not impossible, it certainly seems the 'positioning' was in the tnc msm twilight-zone exclusively, and certainly far, far removed from reality.
time will tell, and i suppose some of the 'smart money' is still taking a flyer on the tee-rump, but i'd be surprised if any one of them has bet the farm on the aging boy-wonder from atlantic city.
fdr was hated, feared and hated. no one fears or hates trump. even his fiercest detractors are using him as a strawman and punching bag.
Posted by: jfl | Feb 8 2017 12:10 utc | 123
Commander ‘Givi’ assassinated in bomb blast in Eastern Ukraine
http://theduran.com/commander-givi-assassinated-in-bomb-blast-in-donbass/
The rebels' Donetsk News Agency said Mikhail Tolstykh, better known under his nom de guerre Givi, died early Wednesday morning in what it described as a terrorist attack. The agency said 35-year old Tolstykh was killed by a rocket fired from a portable launcher into his office.
Posted by: OSJ | Feb 8 2017 17:21 utc | 124
The lack of an opposition is why The Don is not a One-Term-Wonder.
While Trump is still tweeting as if he is on the election campaign trail, Glenn Greenwalds latest is a beauty on their continued meltdown.
Posted by: MadMax2 | Feb 9 2017 17:09 utc | 125
will the russian aerospace forces be bombing the saa in their efforts to help their 'turkish ally' occupy syrian soil?
Posted by: jfl | Feb 9 2017 21:21 utc | 126
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Is it just me, or does little Barron look more like Ivanka's son than Melania's?
You know, among the Chosen, having a child with your daughter is a perfectly acceptable means to 'breed' a lineage, and has happened throughout Chosen history, just look it up. Ivanka got married October 25, 2009. Barron is 10 years old. Just sayin'.
Maybe Ivanka and Jared can adopt little Barron as their foster child after Trump Sr clots out, and his KGB escort flies the coop back to Eastern Europe, lol? "We just are very compatible. We get along."
Anyway, Big Day for Big Boy Donald, passing three EO fatwahs and one IDIQNB today:
1) ANOTHER new taskforce on 'crime' to employ his highest-ratings sychophants;
2) REQUIRING DOJ/DHS to report on 'bad guys' and 'whatschya gunnah do boutit?';
3) OUTLAWING $100s, $50s cash, and REQUIRING a Fed debit-card for tax refunds;
The IDIQNB is in reference to his statement that 'The Wall is already being designed', when anyone who knows the Federal procurement system knows it first requires studies and budget estimates, Congressional approval of said not-already-budgeted project for FY addenda funding (or unfunded), then several months of project scoping and basis of design, a 30-day bidding interval and notice in the Congressional record, a 30-day bid review, an award and 90-day challenge period, and so on. It's against Federal law to advertise a project without funding in place.
Clearly Trump is either bold-faced lying to the American people, or he's just issued his first Bush Jr IDIQNB by Executive Fiat, and then you have to wonder which of his cronies got that design job, and how much Israeli shell-company contractors will get out of their IDIQNB money-laundering back to Sheldon Adelson?
Posted by: Even More Outraged Ji | Feb 9 2017 23:17 utc | 127
Trump denounced nuclear arms treaty with Russia during call with Putin
In reversal, Trump ‘upholds One China policy’
i guess they explained to donald the unready that, while driving a wedge between russia and china is a good idea, the 'natural' team-up is with the chinese plutocrats, who speak the same language as the americans.
and fer chissakes, your rumpness, we've ALWAYS been at war with russia! invading and occupying russia means the renewal of the 'american' frontier! of course there'll by those pesky chinese 'indians' to deal with ... but we've done it before and we can do it again. wrote the book on continental ethnic cleansing.
Posted by: jfl | Feb 10 2017 12:15 utc | 128
Correction:
- National Security advisor Micheal Flynn seem to have talked with Putin ????? (with or without Tump's consent ???)
Posted by: Willy2 | Feb 10 2017 21:23 utc | 130
Another cross border indian 'surgical strike' on 'terrorists',
But who'r the real terrorists here ?
Anybody ever heard of the Nagaland,?
Its The best kept dirty secret of 'democratic' India, other than kashmir.
the 'Tibet' that nobody wanna talk about !
hehehehhe
Posted by: denk | Feb 11 2017 4:45 utc | 131
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Over on Reddit #nottheonion has a wild string on Donbass going, trying to steal the European theatre from MoA. We need a full-on assault to bring them back on the reservation.
Posted by: Even More Outraged Ji | Feb 11 2017 5:38 utc | 132
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And India gave you Win10 subscription-based OS that destroys your harddrive during its weekly
complete uninstall and reinstall, but you were suppoosed to use their UNSECURED Cloud,
weren't you, and you didn't read the Manual. So your loss is your loss. Get over it.
And India also gave you Office 365 on the Cloud, which is a complete f'ing disaster, and puts
all your data on the INSECURE cloud, so if you don't have Net access, YOU'RE F'CKED, and oh,
by the way, if your CPU and mobil hotspot can't keep up with the insane bandwidth demand,
guess what? Your hard drive data is all 'chipped' to your now smoked CPU serial number, so
your hard drive recovery is LOCKED OUT, and you are now FULLY ON THE INSECURE MS CLOUD to
claw your data back. You might as well throw that smoked CPU laptop in the garbage.
Meanwhile Trump is pushing UNLIMITED 'safe, legal (sic)' Hindu H1Bs, there are 100s of Indian job
mafia's pushing 1,000s of false-documented H1B Hindus into the USA, Hindus that India's own reports say
78% are 'irredeemably untrainable' and high-tech industry reports show are stealing 89% of all new
high-tech jobs in the USA, and 56% of existing high-tech jobs held by Americans.
Then comes Trump's Republican Congress, passing a $100,000 a year 'minimum wage' law for those
H1B Hindus, (that an IRS report said is the average H1B Hindu salary, 3x higher than Americans,)
after it was revealed a Silicon Valley employer was paying his H1B Hindus $1.89 an hour, and
had been caught doing so FIVE TIMES, himself an H1B immigrant ISRAELI.
H1B Hindus will bring America to its subscription-based knees with Apple, MicroSoft and The Cloud.
They will hold your INSECURE DATA hostage, after data-mining and front-ending all your banking and
stock market transactions to their Chosen pals on Wall Street. You don't think they're recording?!
STEM Education is their ultimate sop, pushing it onto public education, financed by your taxes,
teaching little jack and jill STEM jibberjabber curriculum WRITTEN IN INDIA, for careers that
won't exist, (outside Mil.Gov) because unqualified H1B Hindus are pouring over the border by
the 787 Dreamliner load every single day, those flights from Hyderabad are all fully booked.
Oh, look out, it's a Muslim from Somalia! Lu-lu-lu-lu-lu!!!
You might guess I hate Hindus, but that's not exactly correct. I hate Modi and fascist Brahmans
of government and high-technology, who consider Americans the Untouchable underclass, we are
just street sweepers and tithe-givers to the Brahmans of Silicon Valley, the Gurus of The Cloud.
Just LISTEN to them, the bleating arrogance of Infosys so reminiscent of Goldman's arrogance,
the cold arrogance of MicroSoft's Nadella, so similar to Hank Paulson.
I've worked with Hindus, and been betrayed by them, *brutally*, 3x over the years. Watch yourself.
If a Hindu comes in over you, just tell your family you're packing up, and moving to Rotterdam.
What The Chosen did and are doing to your pension, the Hindus are doing to your salary.
Trump's Hindu, Jew and Russians pals are all Vermin!!
Posted by: Even More Outraged Ji | Feb 5 2017 19:20 utc | 101